January 15, 2012
Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]
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November 21, 2011
Speeding and handing the wheels over to unlicensed drivers is not uncommon practice among container truck drivers, an investigation finds Rescuers carrying the body of a victim killed by an accident between a container truck and a bus that left 10 dead in Binh Thuan Province on November 7. The lack of container truck [...]
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October 7, 2011
The fast and furious take over city streets throughout Traffic Safety Month An illegal racer performs tricks on Ho Chi Minh City’s Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Street. The central government is looking to crack down on street racing in the country’s biggest cities. The Ho Chi Minh City municipal administration has asked the central [...]
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September 27, 2011
Mobs of hundreds of racers continue to roar through the city on weekends, with some hitting traffic police or luring them into fatal traps An illegal motorbike race on Chu Van An Street in Ho Chi Minh City. Police say illegal street races have become more common in recent months. The death of a [...]
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September 23, 2011
Mafia-esque bus transportation system a no-holds-barred race fraught with risk Buses wait to pick up passengers on the road outside the Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi It took 30 minutes for the bus to travel just one kilometer as it inched its way out of the My Dinh Terminal in Hanoi at around [...]
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September 20, 2011
A traffic police officer stops trucks at a mountain pass in Ha Tinh Province on July 24. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Bribing traffic cops to get away with driving overloaded trucks or trucks carrying illegal products is common practice among drivers on highways and roads across the country. A Tuoi Tre report says the situation is [...]
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August 13, 2011
Tourists use a hanging bridge to cross a river in Bangkok, Thailand A road tour between Vietnam, Laos and Thailand has been attracting more tourists to the countries since a bridge was launched across the Mekong River in December 2006.  But the country that has exploited its potentials most, unsurprisingly, is Thailand, which has for long [...]
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July 12, 2011
A customer uses an automated teller machine (ATM) in Ho Chi Minh City. It can be said without exaggeration that delaying deadlines has become a chronic disease in Vietnam, especially at the administrative level. Whether it is an important thing like a new regulation or something less so like a new academic program, everything can [...]
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July 2, 2011
Re: It’s the traffic, stupid! (May 6-12 issue No.84) This is an interesting and burning issue in Vietnam. I moved to this country from San Jose, California. I have lived here now for two years. One thing I learned is that that traffic rules and traffic culture do not exist in Vietnam. I noticed [...]
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June 19, 2011
Reckless driving and frequent tire blow outs have plagued Vietnam’s most advanced roadway The bus involved in the accident on June 13 that killed 8 people and injured 10 others on the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway Investigations into a recent highway accident, which killed eight and injured 10, has indicated that speeding [...]
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